Euripides, Orestes, ed. Gilbert Murray, 960

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Ἠλέκτρα

κατάρχομαι στεναγμόν, ὦ Πελασγία,
960

τιθεῖσα λευκὸν ὄνυχα διὰ παρηίδων,

αἱματηρὸν ἄταν,

κτύπον τε κρατός, ὃν ἔλαχʼ ἁ κατὰ χθονὸς

νερτέρων Περσέφασσα καλλίπαις θεά.

ἰαχείτω δὲ γᾶ Κυκλωπία,
965

σίδαρον ἐπὶ κάρα τιθεῖσα κούριμον,

πήματʼ οἴκων.

ἔλεος ἔλεος ὅδʼ ἔρχεται

τῶν θανουμένων ὕπερ,

στρατηλατᾶν Ἑλλάδος ποτʼ ὄντων.
970

Orestes. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Ὀρέστης (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978))

Translations (3)

Orestes Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 960 focus

Electra

O Pelasgia, I take up the dirge, doing bloody outrage on my cheeks with white nail, and beating on my head; these are the portion of Persephone, fair young goddess of the nether world.
960

Let the Cyclopian land break forth into wailing for the sorrows of our house, laying the steel upon the head to crop it close. This is the piteous, piteous strain that goes up for those who are about to die,
965

once the battle-leaders of Hellas .
970

Orestes (OCR draft) Experimental (Orestes. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 1, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1841. Harvard OCR compared with an independent BSB copy. Native Donner verse citations, Murray reference cards, explicitly located notes and page facsimiles. Unresolved OCR, verse divisions, unlocated notes and printed errata are documented in the source review.) — 960 focus

Weh, laute Klagen heb' ich, mein Pelasgerland,

Die weißen Någel leg' ich an die Wange mir,

Blutig sie zu schånden,

Mein Haupt zerschlag' ich; Königinn der Todtenwelt,
950

Dir gebührt, Schone, dieser Zou!

Mit mir stimm' an das Lied, Kyklopenstadt,

Vom Haupt die Locken trennend, und beseufze des¹

Hauses Unglück.

Die Klage tont den Sterbenden,
955

Tint den Sprossen jener, die²

Einst Hellas Heer angeführt im Kampfe.

Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Orestes 960

ed. Gilbert Murray

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